BBC Radio 4 has recently undertaken several series of radio documentaries that are deep maps. In Great Britain, the method is used by those who use the terms spirit of place and local distinctiveness.
The best known US examples are Wallace Stegner's Wolf Willow (1962) and Heat-Moon's PrairyErth (1991). US scholars and writers of bioregionalism have promoted the concept of deep maps.
In its best form, the resulting work arrives at a subtle, multi-layered and "deep" map of a small area of the earth. Such a deep map goes beyond simple landscape/history-based topographical writing to include and interweave autobiography, archeology, stories, memories, folklore, traces, reportage, weather, interviews, natural history, science, and intuition. Some call the approach "vertical travel writing", while archeologist Michael Shanks compares it to the eclectic approaches of 18th- and early-19th-century antiquarian topographers or to the psychogeographic excursions of the early Situationist International. Its subject is a particular place, usually quite small and limited, and usually rural. It does not preclude the combination of writing with photography and illustration. It may be performed in long-form on radio. A deep map work can take the form of engaged documentary writing of literary quality. One such kind of intensive exploration of place was popularised by author William Least Heat-Moon with his book PrairyErth: A Deep Map. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ī deep map is a map with greater information than a two-dimensional image of places, names, and topography. ( May 2010) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. This article possibly contains original research.
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